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Jean Baptiste Marie Charles Meusnier de la Place (Tours, 19 June 1754 — le Pont de Cassel, near Mainz, 13 June 1793) was a French mathematician, engineer and Revolutionary general. He is best known for Meusnier's theorem on the curvature of surfaces, which he formulated while he was at the École Royale du Génie (Royal School of Engineering).
Jean-Baptiste Meusnier de La Place (1754-1793), a brilliant scientist of middle class origins, was appointed correspondent to the Académie des sciences at the age of 22 and was elected a member in 1785.
Chef Jean Baptiste Meusnier combines Japanese technique with French flavors at his Parisian ramen shop, Kodawari, which has a residency in NYC through April 29.
Jul 17, 2012 · In 1784, General Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier designed an elliptical airship that was about 260 feet (79 meters) long. It was to be powered by three hand-cranked propellers, which required the...
Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-1793), an officer in the French Royal Corps of Engineers and a mathematician, observed the flight of the hydrogen-filled balloon launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27, 1783. He calculated the height of its ascent and trajectory.
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The French designed and built the first successful nonrigid airships. In 1784, General Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier designed an elliptical balloon made of a two-layered bag about 260 feet (79 meters) long and with a capacity of 60,000 cubic feet (1,700 cubic meters). The reinforced fabric at the bottom held triangulated cables that went to a ...
This chapter examines Jean-Baptiste Meusnier's investigation of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris. In his ten-year career with a police unit, the Département des femmes galantes, he had observed some 550 women.
